The statue that is turning heads at CPAC is really just an appetizer for the real thing though. It’s the fiberglass mold of the stainless steel sculpture that Zegan has stored in Tampa. Making that statue cost him his “life savings” of $50,000. He apparently wants to sell that one for more than $1 million but if he can’t sell it he wants it to go in the Trump Presidential Library. “It is museum-quality, and that’s the one I’m eventually hoping to get in the Trump library,” Zegan told CNN. “It is literally priceless.”
Many on Twitter were quick to recall the Old Testament story of the golden calf that angered Moses. “Idol worship isn’t conservative. #RestoreOurGop,” Representative Adam Kinzinger, who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Trump, wrote on Twitter. Zegan pushed back against the comparison. “It’s not an idol,” Zegan said. “I know the biblical definition of an idol. This is not an idol. This is a sculpture.”
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